Have we gone too far? I’d say the answer is yes:

Gun control is the ultimate extension of the “government-as-parent” scenario which posits that Americans are either too stupid or too ignorant to take care of themselves. While I won’t argue that our nation is plagued with an overabundance of idiocy, it is not the responsibility of the government to baby-sit everyone and make sure they don’t stick a fork in a light socket.

Such a mentality towards gun regulation only punishes the average citizen by depriving themselves of the right to defend their person and their property. Criminals aren’t likely to care about where they find their firearms because, hey, they’re criminals. When they rob a store the last thing they’re worried about is whether or not their handgun is licensed.

Yet that reaction is what we’ve come to expect from our society. When one lone nutjob storms into a school and kills five people, public outcry doesn’t lay blame on the criminal who committed the crime, it lands on the society that gave him free access to a semi-automatic weapon and the legislators who, despite campaign promises to the contrary, cannot see the future and foretell every human tragedy that will ever occur in his or her jurisdiction.

Posted in uncategorized on September 22nd, 2004 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |